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Kevin Barry Papers
No full textA collection of material relating to Kevin Barry, who was executed for his part in the killing of three British soldiers in 1920. The collection includes material associated with his days at Belvedere College, his year as a medical student in UCD, and his brief time in custody at Mountjoy Prison before execution. The majority of the collection is composed of material gathered by Kathy Barry Maloney, Barry's sister, after his death.Ownership/custodial history: The Kevin Barry collection was deposited in the Archives Department, University College Dublin in 1990 by Dr Eunan O'Halpin.Scope and content: The Collection is a relatively small but valuable body of material. Barry was only eighteen when executed for his part in the killing of three British soldiers in September 1920, and therefore had little time to generate a large body of material himself. The collection contains his school text and exercise books (P93/2-4, P93/5-8), as well as other material associated with his days at Belvedere Jesuit College, such as sports equipment. There is also some material dealing with his year at UCD where he had begun to read medicine, and his brief time in custody at Mountjoy Prison before execution (1 Nov 1920). However, the larger part of the collection was artificially generated by Kathy Barry Maloney, Barry's sister, after his death, and consists for a large part of news-cuttings and other written material commemorating his life and premature death (1921-64).Scope and content: The whole collection is a very vivid record of a volatile period in modern Irish history. It captures especially well the violent baptism this country received at independence, and the esteem in which those who had died for 'the cause' were held at the time. Kevin Barry was by all accounts an enthusiastic and popular young man, and his life was shattered by involvement in the Republican struggle. The collection captures the pathos of his imprisonment and execution, but also the anarchy and violence in which Ireland of the time was engulfed.Biographical/historical information: Born in Dublin and educated at St Mary’s College Rathmines, Belvedere and University College Dublin where he was a medical student, Barry joined the Volunteers in 1917. He was captured in September 1920 while taking part in a raid on a military lorry collecting bread in Church Street during which a young British soldier was shot dead. He was court martialled and executed on 1 November 1920
Kevin Barry and the Anglo-Irish Propaganda War
No full textMost Irish people, when asked what they know of the life and death of Kevin Barry, will pause for a moment while they recall the words of a famously maudlin ballad. A few points will emerge: ‘a lad of eighteen summers’ … ‘British soldiers tortured Barry’ … ‘refused to turn informer’ … ‘hanged him like a dog’ … ‘another martyr for old Ireland, another murder for the crown’. That they know anything at all about Kevin Barry is testimony, among other things, to the power of popular music for the making of political propaganda. Along with Father Murphy, Seán South and Fergal O’Hanlon, Kevin Barry figures in the pantheon of nationalist Ireland’s popular historical heroes, largely because somebody happened to write a good song about him. In many ways this is unfortunate, for Barry and the rest were once living people, and the process of iconographifying them in popular balladry, like all forms of political propaganda, serves not to clarify their roles in the historical events in which they played a part, but rather to obscure and distort them. So it is worth reconsidering the story of Kevin Barry, for a number of reasons. To begin with, his short life reached its climax at a vital moment in the long struggle for Irish self-government, a moment when the violence unleashed in 1916 burst forth again with renewed savagery on both British and Irish sides, involving in the Barry case the deaths of four young men aged between fifteen and twenty
Episode 57: Coffee Talk with Kevin Barry
No full textBerklee Guitar and Ensemble Dept Professor Kevin Barry visits Coffee Talk and digs into the art of listening to develop your sound and create textures that elevate the music you are called upon to play
Kevin Barry, the incident at Monk's Bakery and the making of an Irish Republican legend
No full textKevin Barry remains a popular figure in Irish republican folklore, as a victim of British injustice and a martyr for Ireland. As a member of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, he had taken an active part in a surprise attack on a British army ration party at Patrick Monk’s Bakery on 20 September 1920, which resulted in the deaths of three young British soldiers and Barry’s capture. After being tried by court– artial, convicted and then executed for the murder of one of the three young soldiers, he became the subject of a propaganda campaign directed by Sinn Fein in the world press to characterize the British as brutal, merciless and uncivilized in comparison with IRA fighters like Barry, who were portrayed typically as young, courageous and gallantly devoted to their cause. Yet Barry had been captured in the civilian disguise of a guerrilla fighter rather than as a uniformed soldier, with flat–nosed ammunition in his pistol, and in circumstances where both ballistic evidence and eye–witness testimony proved his culpability beyond any doubt. While these were factors that could and should have been used to challenge Sinn Fein’s propaganda initiatives, the British failed to mount any semblance of a counter–propaganda campaign. The reasons for and the consequences of this mute response on the British side are issues explored in considering how Kevin Barry became and still remains a figure of legend among Irish nationalists
Barry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
S-35 Side A - Kevin Barry
No full textearly Humber Arm (suggests Curling not the centre until RR was built; North Shore had more people
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